Recent and upcoming talks

• “Cavendish on Action-at-a-Distance, and an implication for her view on Fame,” Conference of the International Margaret Cavendish Society, December 2024.
• "Systematic Thinking in the History of Philosophy - and a point about confusion," Conference in Honor of Alan Nelon, UNC Chapel Hill, May 2024.
• "What Descartes maybe should have said: panpsychism and Ethics II.1-8," Cornell University Panpsychism Conference, April 2024.
• Facilitator, discussion group on diversity, equity, and inclusion – 2012 paper by Jennifer Saul, “Scepticism and Implicit Bias,” March 2024
• "Descartes on the Benefits of Confused Thinking," U Iowa Philosophy Colloquium, November 2023.
• "Interdisciplinarity and the Humanities," U Iowa Faculty Senate Retreat, August 2023.
• comments on Kevin Lower, "Margaret Cavendish's Relational Metaphysics of Action and Passion," at the conference "Reappearing Ink: Celebrating the Legacy of Eileen O’Neill," U Mass Amherst, April 2023.
• "Cavendish on Self-Motion: what it is and what it isn't," Pacific APA meeting, San Francisco, April 2023.
• comments on Jan Forsman, "Teresa's Demons: Teresa of Ávila's Influence on the Cartesian Skeptical Scenario of Demonic Deception," Pacific APA meeting, San Francisco, April 2023.
• "Descartes, Rational Distinction, and the Omnibenevolence of God," Princeton-Bucharest Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy, November 2022.

Books

• Descartes, in the series The Routledge Philosophers, Routledge (2023), 424 pp. / errata
• Editor, Margaret Cavendish: Philosophical Writings, Oxford University Press (2019), 274 pp.
• Cavendish, in the series The Arguments of the Philosophers, Routledge (2016), 318 pp.
• Everyday Examples, Bloomsbury Academic Publishing, (2015), 312 pp.
• Editor, The Cambridge Companion to Descartes' Meditations, Cambridge University Press (2014), 336 pp.
• Argument and Persuasion in Descartes' Meditations, Oxford University Press (2010), 248 pp.

Articles 

• "Cavendish on Liberty and Freedom," commissioned for The Oxford Handbook of Cavendish, ed. Julie Crawford and Jacqueline Broad, Oxford UP.
• Review of M. Lascano, The Metaphysics of Margaret Cavendish and Anne Conway, forthcoming in Mind.
• "Simple Natures and Eternal Truths," forthcoming in The Cartesian Mind, ed. Cecilia Wee and Jorge Secada, Routledge Publishing.
• "Margaret Cavendish," Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy (2023).
• "Margaret Cavendish and Galen Strawson on Emergence, Mind, and Self," Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Mind 4 (2023), 369-398.
• "Ways of Knowing," in The Routledge Handbook of Women and Early Modern European Philosophy, ed. Karen Detlefsen and Lisa Shapiro, Routledge Publishing (2023), 140-154.
• "Cavendish, Philosophical Letters, and the Plenum," in Cavendish: An Interdisciplinary Perspective, ed. Lisa Walters and Brandie Siegfried, Cambridge UP (2022), 98-111.
• "The Feminist Worlds of Margaret Cavendish," in World-Making Renaissance Women, ed. Pamela Hammons and Brandie Siegfried, Cambridge UP (2021), 184-198.
• Review of J. Broad, Women Philosophers of Seventeenth-Century England: Selected Correspondence, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews (2020).
• "Hyperbolic Doubt, Cognitive Garbage, and the Regulae," Revue Internationale De Philosophie 2019/4, 449-467.
• "Cavendish on Material Causation and Cognition," Causation and Cognition: Perspectives on Early Modern Philosophy, ed. Dominik Perler and Sebastian Bender, Routledge Publishing (2019), 145-170.
• Review of The Well-Ordered Universe: The Philosophy of Margaret Cavendish by Deborah Boyle, Locke Studies 18 (2018), 1-9.
• "Cavendish on the Metaphysics of Imagination and the Dramatic Force of the Imaginary World," Early Modern Women on Metaphysics, ed. Emily Thomas, Cambridge UP (2018), 188-210.
• "Mind-Body Problems," The Routledge Companion to Seventeenth-Century Philosophy, ed. D. Kaufman, Routledge Publishing (2018), 253-286.
• "Descartes and the Force of Skepticism," Skepticism: From Antiquity to the Present, ed. Baron Reed and Diego Machuca, Bloomsbury Academic (2017), 306-319.
• Review of C.P. Ragland, The Will to Reason: Theodicy and Freedom in Descartes, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews (2016).
• "True and Immutable Natures," The Cambridge Descartes Lexicon, ed. L. Nolan, Cambridge UP (2016), 727-730.
• "Analysis vs. Synthesis," The Cambridge Descartes Lexicon, ed. L. Nolan, Cambridge UP (2016), 7-12.
• "Introduction," The Cambridge Companion to Descartes' Meditations, ed. D. Cunning, Cambridge UP (2014), 1-22.
• "The First Meditation: Divine Omnipotence, Necessary Truths, and the Possibility of Radical Deception," The Cambridge Companion to Descartes' Meditations, Cambridge UP (2014), 68-87.
• "Descartes on God and the Products of His Will," Models of God and Other Ultimate Realities, ed. J. Diller and A. Kasher, Springer Publishing (2013), 175-193.
• Review of K. Smith, Matter Matters, British Journal for the History of Philosophy 19 (2011), 997-1001.
• “Margaret Lucas Cavendish,” The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, ed. E. Zalta (2009), 43 pp.
• Review (co-authored) of M. Moriarty, Fallen Nature, Fallen Selves: Early Modern French Thought II, Journal of the History of Philosophy 46 (2008), 644-5.
• "Malebranche and Occasional Causes," Philosophy Compass 3 (2008), 1-20.
• "Fifth Meditation TINs Revisited: A Reply to Criticisms of the Epistemic Interpretation,” British Journal for the History of Philosophy 16 (2008), 215-227.
• "Nicolas Malebranche," The Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers, ed. T. Hockey, Springer Academic Publishers (2007), 731-2.
• "Semel in Vita: Descartes' Stoic View on the Place of Philosophy in Human Life," Faith and Philosophy 24 (2007), 164-183.
• "Descartes on the Dubitability of the Existence of Self," Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 74 (2007), 111-131.
• "Cavendish on the Intelligibility of the Prospect of Thinking Matter," History of Philosophy Quarterly 23 (2006), 117-136.
• "Descartes on Sensations and Ideas of Sensations,"An Anthology of Philosophical Studies, Athens: Atiner Publishing (2006), 17-32.
• Review of D. Skrbina, Panpsychism in the West, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews (2005).
• "Rationalism and Education," A Companion to Rationalism, ed. A. Nelson, Blackwell Publishing (2005), 61-81.
• Editor and translator, “Principii Cartesia” by Robert Percy Smith, The Philological Museum (2004), ed. D. Sutton.
• "Systematic Divergences in Malebranche and Cudworth," Journal of the History of Philosophy 41 (2003), 343-363.
• "True and Immutable Natures and Epistemic Progress in Descartes' Meditations," British Journal for the History of Philosophy 11 (2003), 235-248.
• "Descartes on the Immutability of the Divine Will," Religious Studies 39 (2003), 79-92.
• "Descartes' Modal Metaphysics," The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (2002), ed. E. Zalta, 37 pp.
• "Agency and Consciousness," Synthese 120 (1999), 271-294.
• "Modality and Cognition in Descartes" (co-authored), Acta Philosophica Fennica 64 (1999), 137-153.